Best tears & hands Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When we see a hero, on the one hand, we applaud them; on the other hand, there is something in a lot of people that wants to tear the hero down.”

People Want Hands Humanity Tears Buddhism Hero

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.”

Hands Light Eye Night Black Pieces Tears Wings Good Things Woods Invisible Agents Pale Bloody Prey Crow Pitiful Scarves Macbeth Play Invisible Hand Great Bond

Author:William Shakespeare

“I am really excited about Battle of the Stars, the line-up looks fantastic. I've no doubt that despite their fame my hand holding will still be in high demand as they take on the judges often harsh words. Lets just hope I'm not having to mop up too many tears!”

Looks Stills Hands Stars Lines Doubt Tears Judging Battle Fame Demand Excited Despite Fantastic No Doubt Harsh Hand Holding Harsh Words

Author:Kate Thornton

“Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.”

“Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.”

Hands Earth Fall Rocks Tears Rain Dust Towers Impatient Gleam

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Jesus lives! the same comforting, helping, instructing, loving Elder Brother, as when John leaned on His bosom, as when He lifted Peter up from the waves, as when He dried Mary's tears with His, "Thy sins are forgiven thee." Jesus lives! the same almighty Saviour, Guide, Intercessor, as when He ascended to glory with the broken fetters of sin and death in His pierced hands.”

Helping Hands Jesus Sin Tears Brother Broken Glory Wave Guides Thee Peter Mary Almighty Forgiven Comforting Elders Bosoms Saviour Fetters Intercessors

Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge

“This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early weariness; and sometimes tears in his eyes, Which he let slip unconsciously on his cheek, Or brushed away with an unconcerned hand. There were tears for human suffering, or for a glance Into the vast futility of life, Which he had seen from the first, being old When he was born.”

Men Firsts Humans Sometimes Hands Eye Faces Suffering Born Atheism Tears His Eyes Slips Cheeks Glances Futility Weariness Pathos Human Suffering Unconcerned Being Old Futility Of Life

Author:Edgar Lee Masters

“Hands have not tears to flow.”

Hands Tears Flow

Author:Dylan Thomas

“The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.”

“To see cartoon-me positioned (alphabetically) amongst so many of my women heroes and role models ... well, I just broke down and cried. Happy tears. I surely hope that this one-of-a-kind collection of radical American women reaches the hands of all children who want to grow up and become amazing women.”

Want Wells Kind Children Hands Grows Roles Growing Up Tears Hero Models Down And Radical Broke Collections Role Models Cried Cartoon American Woman One Of A Kind Amazing Woman Happy Tears

Author:Kate Bornstein

“When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say that he bought a left-hand glove and a right- hand glove, but not that he bought a left-hand glove, a right- hand glove, and a pair of gloves. 'She came home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair' is a well known joke based on the absurdity of conjoining terms of different types. Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds.”

Source: The Concept of Mind

“As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.”

Hands Fate Tears Sorrow Laughter Moved Foolish Excess Mourn Reproach Inexorable Insensibility

Author:Seneca the Younger

“A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that appeases him. He who fears and hates religion is like the savage beast that growls and bites the chain, which prevents his flying on the passenger. He who has no religion at all is that terrible animal who perceives his liberty only when he tears in pieces, and when he devours.”

Hands Religion Hate Voice Animal Liberty Pieces Tears Terrible Flying Chains Perceive Beast Lions Bites Savages Strokes Passengers Stoops Appease Love And Fear Hate Religion

Book:The Spirit of Laws

Source: The Spirit of Laws

“Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.”

“I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.”

People Men Feels Looks Hands Eye Faces Simple Poverty Tears Broken Institutions Legs Accidents Pockets Bless Tickets Affluence Crutches Boon Vests Broken Leg

Book:Mark Twain Speaking

Source: Mark Twain Speaking

“The greatest gratification that I get to work with these hands is that when I come out and I go to the waiting room and speak and talk to the families of my patients, I get standing ovations and I get tears and they look at me as superhuman and superhero. No amount of money, no amount of anything can ever compare to that feeling.”

Looks Feelings Hands Speak Waiting Rooms Tears Amount Standing Patient Compare Look At Me Superhero Gratification Superhuman Waiting Rooms Ovation

Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

“A father must lead his children; but first he must learn to follow. He must laugh with them but remember the ache of childhood tears. He must hold the past with one hand and reach to the future with the other so there can be no generation gap in family love.”

Firsts Children Hands Past Remember Father Laughing Generations Childhood Tears Gaps Ache Family Love Generation Gap

Book:Quiet Moments for Women: A Daily Devotional

Source: Quiet Moments for Women: A Daily Devotional

“Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.”

“You don't know the power that you have with that tear in your hand”

Knows Hands Tears

Author:Tori Amos

“One can't tear up the darkness with a slap but bringing the light. Neither the error gets undone by fighting It hand-to-hand, but spreading the truth, without attacking the error.”

Hands Light Fighting Darkness Tears Errors Attacking Undone Slap

Author:Samael Aun Weor

“My body is full of graves. A sepulcher is dug up, and a young girl comes out of it with her dusty hands in tears. A lady who is a young girl and an old girl at the same time feels the presence of the young girl. I feel that the 15-year-old me and the 50-year-old me come out of the sepulcher through an illegal excavation.”

Feels Years Body Hands Young Girl Tears Graves Illegal

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“Because we lack sharp claws, aren't very fast on our feet, and aren't exactly endowed with lightning reflexes, it would be very difficult if not impossible for us to run down an animal, catch it with our bare hands, and tear through its fur and skin in order to eat it. Biologically, we are designed to be frugivorous herbivores eating mainly fruits, seeds, roots, and leaves.”

Ifs Hands Would Be Running Order Difficult Animal Impossible Feet Tears Eating Roots Skins Fruit Seeds Lightning Fur Claws Reflexes

Author:Sharon Gannon

“I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.”

Hands Spirit Father Land Tears Dad Protect Graves Passed Away

Author:Chief Joseph

“When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.”

Believe May Children Hands Father Causes Tears Resent

Book:We Have Seen the Lord!: The Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Source: We Have Seen the Lord!: The Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

“France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.”

Hands Fall Money Tears Travel Paper France Falling Apart Toilets Toilet Paper

Book:Billy Wilder: Interviews

Source: Billy Wilder: Interviews

“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”

Source: The Kite Runner

“galatea was a serious girl. she was pale and looked like tears all over. big ed passed his hand through his hair and said hello. she looked at him steadily. "where have you been? why did you do this to me?" and she gave dean a dirty look; she knew the score. dean paid absolutely no attention; what he wanted now was food; he asked jane if there was anything. the confusion began right there.”

Ifs Looks Said Hands Bigs Wanted Girl Attention Tears Serious Hair Paid Confusion Dirty Score Pale Hello Jane Dean

Author:Jack Kerouac

“Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.”

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.”

“The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical.”

Feels Body Hands Tears Bed Kissing Finals Passionate Boredom Sentiments Bitterness Conventional Shameful Hypocritical Climax Passionate Kiss Parabola Casino Royale

Book:Casino Royale

Source: Casino Royale

“And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal”

Hands Poetry Healing Blood Tears Heal Steel Wipe Self Injury Tears Of Blood

Book:Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

Source: Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

“For the rest of my life I'll be thinking about that hamburger. I'll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn't like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers.”

Thinking Hands Kids Cry Tears Eating Sitting Cheeks Hamburgers Waitress Streaming Looking Away

Book:So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away

Source: So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away

“I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response.”

Want Love Feels Hands Voice Loses Seeing Tears Expression Response Let It Go Haggard No Response I Don't Want To Lose You

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact, can survive natural catastrophe, neglect, and even mistreatment, has always filled me with wonder. Sometimes in museums, looking at a humble piece of pottery from ancient Persia or Pompeii, or a finely wrought page from a medieval illuminated manuscript toiled over by a nameless monk, or a primitive tool with a carved handle, I am moved to tears. The unknown life of the maker is evanescent in its brevity, but the work of his or her hands and heart remains.”

“After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next door brought her down. He forced her knees to the road and suffered the penalty. He collected her punches as if they were presents. Her bony hands and elbows were accepted with nothing but a few short moans. He accumulated the loud, clumsy specks of saliva and tears as if they were lovely to his face, and more important, he was able to hold her down.”

Ifs Important Hands Able Faces Girl Next Behinds Boys Doors Tears Soldier Accepted Lovely Loud Knees Thirty Penalties Meter Elbows Clumsy Specks Saliva

Author:Markus Zusak

“His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.”

Hands Eye Left Dark Tears Sorrow Blue Paint Cheeks Swollen Dark Blue Left Eye

Book:Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain.”

Feelings Hands Earth Together Fall Attitude Feet Tears Rain Graves Warmth

Author:James F. Cooper

“I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”

Hands Journey Tears Strange Hero Laughter Unseen Hand In Hand Surveys Immensity Gogol

Author:Nikolai Gogol

“If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.”

Ifs Hands Tree Tears Oil Olives Olive Trees

Author:Mahmoud Darwish

“She threw up her hands. "All right. Why not?" Why not?" Sure." His arms fell to his sides. "That's it? I pour my heart out. I love you so much I've got freakin' tears in my eyes. And all I get in return is 'Why not'?" What did you expect? Am I supposed to fall all over you just because you've finally come to your senses?" Would it be too much to ask?"...He'd begun to glare at her again, his eyes growing stormier by the minute."When do you think you might be ready? To fall all over me, that is.”

“I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not like to put it down. I will not want to leave it.”

Want Sometimes Hands Beautiful Form Fun Tears Shapes Comfortable Draws Garden Burden Humble Ugly Admiration Awkward Shells Familiarity Tenacity Resent Gloves Adaptability Oysters Slate

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“My sisters and I stand, arms around each other, laughind and wiping the tears from each others eyes. The flash of the Polaroid goes off and my family hands me the snapshot. My sisters and I watch quietly together, eager to see what develops. Ghe grey-greensurface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. And although we don't speak, I know we all see it: Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in suprise to see, her long-cherished wish.”

Knows Looks Long Hands Eye Together Mother Three Speak Wish Watches Tears Color Arms Mouths My Family My Sister Flash Grey Snapshots Sharpening Polaroids Bright Colors

Author:Amy Tan

“They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.”

World Way Hands Faces Sides Natural Steps Tears Arms Late Guides Wander Brands Paradise Seats Gates Solitary Providence Looking Back Eastern Eden Hand In Hand Fiery

Author:John Milton

“If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!”

Ifs May Hands Tears Sorrow Shame Lips Hearing Ruins Gentle Curse Poison Touched Spokes Belonging Shelter Roof

Book:Dombey and Son

Source: Dombey and Son

“Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.”

Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author

“She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.”

Hands Evil Asks Tears Ignorance Tests Moved Hopeful Touched Swallowing Sullen Briefcases Characterless

Book:American Psycho: Picador Classic

Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic

“Elizabeth’s hands flew to her mouth; tears filled her eyes with happiness as she realized he was fulfilling yet another of her and her mother’s intended activities. “Why are you fulfilling all of my mother’s dreams?” she asked, studying his face and searching for answers. “So you don’t run away like she did in search of them,” he replied, taking her hand. “Come on, join in!” he said, leaping around.”

Said Dream Hands Eye Running Faces Mother Answers Study Tears Activity Mouths Filled Running Away Fulfilling Her Eyes Flew

Book:If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die.”

Men Looks Littles Long Doe Use Hands Young Dies Grows Heard Tears Cold Kissing Gold Sells Brave Deeds Lust Bitter Coward Knives Sigh Flattering Brave Man

Author:Oscar Wilde

“And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him. He brushed away the tears, and stooped to pick up the green shield that Eowyn had given him, and he slung it at his back. Then he looked for his sword that he had let fall; for even as he struck his blow his arm was numbed, and now he could only use his left hand.”

Stills Use Hands Fall Left Given Tears Arms Picks Green Blow Spokes Shields Heed Left Hand Eowyn

Book:The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an obscure sky, and the snow looks up like a face dirtied with tears. Should I cry out and see what happens? There could only be a stranger wandering in this landscape, cold, unfortunate, himself frozen fast in wintry eyes.”

Ifs Should Looks Hands Happens Eye Faces Tree Sky Cry Tears Cold Fingers Stranger Meaningful Snow Wander Landscape Look Up Should I Unfortunate Obscure Frozen

Book:Meditations in an Emergency

Source: Meditations in an Emergency

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